Remote Learning Is In Effect Due To Weather : Who Else?

[mylilnikita]

So in my corner of SE Virginia, our school system got spooked last week for the small amount of snow for a second week.and had kids bring home laptops but school was out just for the day and they really didn’t have a plan and had a message that if it happens again, remote learning will go into effect.
So they had laptops brought home Tuesday with a couple work sheets.
Yesterday was work sheets day ( not sure city wide or just specific school) Today out again and remote learning is happening, I give props to teachers because, I need a drink , lol.

And they apparently didn’t do a practice zoom to see if things were working correctly.

 

[mmbrad02]

I am in Kentucky and we have NTI days (Non Traditional Days) built in every school year for bad weather. Our district is allowed 10. We were doing these before Covid, but Covid really helped get the remote learning routine downpat. In Grades K-2 my daughter had 5 packets sent home before Christmas (more would come in needed) and you were told which packet to do when an NTI day was called. From third grade on, all work is on Google classroom/Google meets. Now in middle school she has a Meet with each classs on NTI days and then the work is assigned. I'm not convinced its as valuable as in person instruction but I do feel our district does a good job maintaining it as well as they can. I am also thankful my DD is old enough now not to need a sitter and she manages the school work on her own.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Here in my part of VA, my brothers are doing virtual learning. But their 4 day weekend got cut to at least 3 days and possibly just a normal one if the district does so.

 

[sam_gordon]

I am in Kentucky and we have NTI days (Non Traditional Days) built in every school year for bad weather. Our district is allowed 10. We were doing these before Covid, but Covid really helped get the remote learning routine downpat. In Grades K-2 my daughter had 5 packets sent home before Christmas (more would come in needed) and you were told which packet to do when an NTI day was called. From third grade on, all work is on Google classroom/Google meets. Now in middle school she has a Meet with each classs on NTI days and then the work is assigned. I'm not convinced its as valuable as in person instruction but I do feel our district does a good job maintaining it as well as they can. I am also thankful my DD is old enough now not to need a sitter and she manages the school work on her own.

Also Kentucky, and I believe each school system gets 10 NTI days and 10 "snow" days each year. Anything used over that and they'd have to extend the school year. School are asking the legislature to grant more NTI days because some school systems have used most (all?) of their days in the first three weeks of the year.

DD is a teacher and she sent home packets I think in November.

 

[_19disnA]

Clearly remote learning takes some advance planning and students need to have access to a home PC. I think it was more commonly used during covid when it was realized it might go on for an extended length of time. Many places I am familiar with where they regularly have winter weather issues will tend to push back the start of school 2 hours either due to the extreme cold or give road crews more time to clear the roads used by busses.

 

[tvguy]

Clearly remote learning takes some advance planning and students need to have access to a home PC. I think it was more commonly used during covid when it was realized it might go on for an extended length of time. Many places I am familiar with where they regularly have winter weather issues will tend to push back the start of school 2 hours either due to the extreme cold or give road crews more time to clear the roads used by busses.

Most (if not all) schools got laptops or tablets with Federal Grants during covid so that isn't an issue here in the mountainous areas that might be impacted by snow . Most of the folks with kids in those schools live on roads that are not plowed, so there are some 2 hour delayed start days when weather is bad, and the buses can't get up some of the roads, but the weather isn't bad enough to completely close school. Snow days seem to be a thing of the past.

 

[leebee]

We still have traditional snow days here in Maine. Of course, all you southerners have more snow than we have in the Bangor area, and I'm sorry about that! Hang tight, it'll melt!

 

[kdonnel]

The school system my wife works for has embraced asynchronous digital learning days since covid.

There are no longer snow days on the calendar.

Instead each school year has 4 digital learning days on the calendar. This keeps the students and teachers in practice for any unplanned digital learning days. If there are many unplanned digital learning days, a future planned digital learning day might become in person.

The weather impacted day just transitions into a digital learning day. The teachers post work to be completed in their Google Classroom and the students are expected to complete the work within a few days. It is not due the same day to account for the possibility that a student does not have power, internet, or a compute device.

This week has been a holiday followed by 3 digital learning days due to winter storm Enzo.

February 7th was a planned digital learning day. It has been announced it will now be an in person day.

 

[soccerdad72]

Our college was closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to the extreme cold, but I don't know if they did any remote learning during those two days.

 

[sam_gordon]

Our college was closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to the extreme cold, but I don't know if they did any remote learning during those two days.

My DD is going to a school for baking and her first day back after the break was following the first storm. The first day of classes were decided to be "virtual". I wondered if they were going to send some kind of Baking Simulator game to the students.

 

[mmbrad02]

I should add that my daughter has had a Chromebook issued to her every year since third grade (coincidently was also the year Covid struck). Weather or not, she carries a school issued Chromebook to all her classes during the day and home and back each night. All NTI work is done on that - for Algebra, for example, it's submitted via Google Classroom but to get full credit she has to submit a sheet of notebook paper when they return, showing their calculations/work.

 

[lanejudy]

We do old fashioned snow days here in VT. A snow day means no school. There are a couple of extra days baked into the schedule, and the school year gets extended in June if more are needed. Our district (and I think most in the state) eliminated online learning a couple of years ago. Some teachers may still use a Google Classroom to post assignments but very few.

 

[Minnesota!]

Kids here get their own chromebook/laptops, so school can still be in session during bad weather. But, most time off for bad weather as of late has just been a day off vs a learning day.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I haven't seen any of the Texas schools do any sort of remote learning since Covid. We're Houston area and they just treated it as bad weather days. DD16 had off from school both Tuesday and Wednesday. A couple of districts canceled today as well due to the amount of black ice still on the roads today through mid-morning.